Good morning everyone and welcome back to another morning's with the masters where we devote

ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning, you guys. Good morning indeed. We're

picking up with day five of our making space for what truly matters devotional. On the

Bible app, by the way, I'm adding a word to that title every single time I mention the title

of the Debo. Anyways, I just feel like it adds some color to it, but whatever. There's a link

to that in the description if you guys want to follow along with us. And as always, I'm going to

read the scripture then Tori's going to pick it with the Debo. Let's do it. The scripture is

Psalms chapter 37 verse seven, a Psalm of David. And it says this,

be still in the presence of the Lord and wait patiently for him to act. Don't worry about evil

people who prosper or fret about their wicked schemes. The devotional is titled stillness,

and it says this, imagine you're standing on a hill by yourself. A stream trickles beside you

while birds chirp happily above you. The sun beats down on your face while a gentle breeze blows

by. Everything looks calm and quiet, but your mind is racing through a list of tasks you've left

undone. Problems you can't solve and brokenness you can't fix. Although you're in a tranquil

place, the sound of your own thoughts is keeping you from enjoying what's happening around you.

My anxiety's already going up. I feel that. What would it take for you to pause, silence the noise

and be still? Through stillness, we learn to pay attention to what God is doing in us and around us.

But stillness is both active and passive. It involves allowing God to refocus our vision and

tune our ears to his voice while we give him the noise inside us. It requires surrendering our

worries, concerns, and problems to God while allowing him to refocus our hearts on him.

As we practice this spiritual habit, we become more equipped to give God glory for his power

at work in our lives, because we start to notice what God has already been doing in our lives.

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